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Reference (shelfmark):: WD4254
Title:: 'Champaul Ghaut. Calcutta - July'. Artist(s): James, Marianne Jane (b. 1805)
Scope & Content:: ‘Champaul Ghaut. Calcutta - July’. Pencil; 16 by 26 cm. Note: Seen from the river showing the engine house for raising water to clean the streets, and Colvin’s Ghat.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1828
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4255
Title:: 'Sir C. Grey’s, the Gardens near Calcutta'. Artist(s): James, Marianne Jane (b. 1805)
Scope & Content:: ‘Sir C. Grey’s, the Gardens near Calcutta’. Pencil; 13 by 23.5 cm. Note: Sir Charles Grey (d.1865), Chief Justice of Bengal 1825-32, friend of Bishop James from their time at Christ Church, Oxford. He had a house at Garden Reach opposite the Botanic Gardens.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1828
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4256
Title:: 'Mr Prinsep’s, Ishera on the Hooghly'. Artist(s): James, Marianne Jane (b. 1805)
Scope & Content:: ‘Mr Prinsep’s, Ishera on the Hooghly’. Water-colour with pen and ink; 17 by 27 cm. Note: Charles Prinsep, advocate at the Calcutta Bar. The Jameses spent a week with him in April 1828. See also William Prinsep’s view of the garden, WD4099.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1828
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4269
Title:: Vale of Kashmir. Two palanquins, a horseman and bearers travelling along a road beside a river, forests beyond and snowy peaks in the distance. Artist(s): Simpson, William (1823-1899)
Scope & Content:: Two palanquins, a horseman and bearers travelling along a road beside a river, forests beyond and snowy peaks in the distance, 1863. Inscribed: ‘Vale of Cashmere Wm. Simpson. 1863’. Water-colour over pencil; 34.9 by 50.2 cm. Purchased 1992
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1863
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4279
Title:: Temple of Kailasanatha at Ellora near Aurangabad, viewed from the south looking north past the monolithic pillar towards the bridge connecting the Nandi shrine with the main temple. Artist(s): Grindlay, Robert Melville (1786-1877)
Scope & Content:: Temple of Kailasanatha at Ellora near Aurangabad, viewed from the south looking north past the monolithic pillar towards the bridge connecting the Nandi shrine with the main temple. Inscribed indistinctly: ‘.... ch Kylas. Principal .... R. Grindlay’; 1810 watermark. Water-colour; 46 by 58.5 c...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1813
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4280(1-11)
Title:: Dane Collection Drawings connected with the family of Sir Louis Dane (1856-1946): (1-11) views of the West Indies by his grandson, Richard Dane. Artist(s): Dane, Richard Louis Hastings (d.1944)
Scope & Content:: Water-colours mostly of the West Indies, by Richard Louis Hastings Dane, grandson of Sir Louis Dane, Shropshire Light Infantry, killed in action 1944.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1940
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4280(12-13)
Title:: Dane Collection 2 drawings connected with the family of Sir Louis Dane (1856-1946), including views of Quetta and Srinagar by T.A.S. Swinburne RE, c.1905. Artist(s): Swinburne, T.A.S. (fl. c.1905)
Scope & Content:: Water-colours of Quetta and Srinagar c.1905 by T.A.S. Swinburne RE, with the 3rd Sappers and Miners stationed at Quetta.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1905
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4280(14-17)
Title:: Dane Collection Miscellaneous drawings connected with the family of Sir Louis Dane (1856-1946)
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous drawings.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1905-1944
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4283
Title:: Busy riverside scene, Calcutta, with a new civil servant being carried ashore. His boxes are being piled up on the bank and a palanquin awaits him. Artist(s): Prinsep, William (1794-1874)
Scope & Content:: Busy riverside scene with a civil servant being carried ashore. His boxes are being piled up on the bank and a palanquin awaits him. Inscribed: ‘The landing of a griffen at Calcutta. WP. Sep. 1822’. Pen and ink with water-colour; 16.5 by 24.3 cm Purchased 1992.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1822
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4285
Title:: View from Chinkiang (Zhen jiang). Artist(s): Waddell, Charles Douglas (1821-1884)
Scope & Content:: View from Chinkiang (Zhen jiang). Inscribed: ‘View from Chin-keung foo Hill, Artillery Mess house, Silver Island. Schoedde’s Hill. Wall carried by exculade’. Pencil; 24.6 by 32.5 cm. On reverse plans and sections of ordnance inscribed: ‘A 10 inch Mortar and Bed. C.D. Waddell’. Note: Major...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1842
Extent:: 1 Item

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